Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - New York

Sisters in Resistance
Maia Wechsler - US - 2000 - 60m - video - documentary
In French with English subtitles

SISTERS IN RESISTANCE shares the story of four French women of uncommon courage who, in their teens and twenties, risked their lives to fight the Nazi occupation of their country. Neither Jews nor Communists, they were in no danger of arrest before they joined the Resistance. They could have remained safe at home. But they chose to resist. Within two years all four were arrested by the Gestapo and deported as political prisoners to the hell of Ravensbruck concentration camp, where they helped one another survive. Today, elderly but still very active, they continue to push forward as social activists and intellectual leaders in their fields. The film captures their amazing lives, and reveals an uncommon, intense bond of friendship that survives to this day.

Preceded by:
One Day Crossing

Co-presented by New York Women in Film & Television

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